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Lawmakers press MARAD and TRANSCOM on maritime industrial base, cargo access and a contested Jones Act waiver
Summary
House members questioned MARAD and TRANSCOM about a decades-long decline in U.S. commercial shipbuilding, limits on government-preference cargo, and a recent Jones Act waiver that MARAD says was issued without consultation.
Members of the House Armed Services Committee spent substantial time examining the maritime industrial base and cargo access that underpin sealift and surge capacity.
MARAD Administrator Steve Carmel warned that the United States ‘‘has not built a commercial ship for sale into the global market since 1960’’ and described a U.S.-flag international fleet reduced to roughly 80 ships. Carmel argued the current architecture treats maritime capability as disparate assets rather than an integrated ecosystem and urged a maritime…
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